Spotlight

March 2018

Climate change adaptation has come to the forefront of the global agenda after the 2015 Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and momentum for international financing for climate change adaptation projects is growing. This growth provides the family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH) community an opportunity to engage with adaptation decisionmakers and processes to potentially access adaptation funding as part of multisectoral adaptation projects.

Family Planning, Marriage/ Family
February 2018

Under the EEDA Resource Hub Activity, PRB partnered with DSW to create communications products that will advance family planning advocacy in Kenya and Uganda. PRB developed a suite of products that engages readers on the results of DSW’s annual family planning budget study in Uganda and Kenya. These products call on national and subnational leaders to fulfill commitments and invest in family planning policy promises.

Family Planning
February 2018

“Senegal Engage: Religion and Family Health” (Le Sénégal s’Engage: la Religion et la Santé familiale) is an ENGAGE presentation that serves as an advocacy tool to connect reproductive health and family planning issues with faith-based attitudes and beliefs. It was featured this month at Senegal’s Week of Child and Maternal Health fair.

In a Congressional Briefing on Monday, April 9 from 12:00 to 1:15 p.m., an expert panel will discuss how societal conditions such as opioid addiction and the geographic context are shaping U.S. mortality rates—and the consequences such changes may impose on American society. This Briefing is sponsored by the Population Association of America and cosponsored by PRB. Space is limited so RSVP today.

The demographic dividend is defined as the accelerated economic growth that can occur as a population age structure matures, given strategic investments in health, education, economic policy, and governance. This web feature expands the concept of the demographic dividend to project four potential sets of benefits—in addition to economic growth, it outlines benefits in child survival, education, and political stability. A country’s likelihood of making substantial gains in each of these four sectors is tied to its age structure.